Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC Research

For many organizations, like yours, HPC has become an important source of competitive advantage. A properly balanced and integrated system can deliver the throughput and capacity needed to manage rapid data growth and increased workload demands. That will allow you to address complex research challenges, such as handling massive amounts of simulation and machine-generated data from sensor systems and scientific instruments; dealing with complex algorithms for modeling, rendering and analysis; and managing the time-criticality of research projects. With the Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC Research, you’ll get the performance and throughput, large shared memory, and ultra-fast interconnect fabrics you need to keep up with demanding research workloads.

InfiniBand smart switch: 1 x Mellanox SB7800

Mellanox SB7800

Mellanox provides the world’s first smart switch, enabling in-network computing through the Co-Design SHArP technology. SB7800 has the highest fabric performance available in the market with up to 7Tb/s of non-blocking bandwidth with 90ns port-to-port latency.

Benefits

Industry-leading switch platform in performance, power, and density

Collective communication acceleration

Quick and easy setup and management

Maximizes performance by removing fabric congestions

Backward compatible to FDR technology

Key features

Performance

36 X EDR 100Gb/s ports in a 1U switch

7Tb/s aggregate switch throughput

Up to 7.02 billion messages-per-second

90ns switch latency

136W typical power consumption

Optimized Design

1+1 redundant & hot-swappable power

N+1 redundant & hot-swappable fans

80 PLUS gold and ENERGY STAR certified power supplies

Dual-core x86 CPU

Advanced Design

Adaptive routing

Congestion Control

VL mapping (VL2VL)

Collective offloads (SHArP)

Head node: 1 x PowerEdge R640

Get scalable computing and storage in a 1U, 2-socket platform with an ideal mix of performance, cost and density for most data centers

Get up to 4x performance increase for common management tasks with iDRAC9’s new dual-core ARM processor (compared with iDRAC8)

Use the same next-generation of embedded automation to standardize BIOS and secure boot configuration, firmware updates, server asset inventory, health monitoring, and power/reset control across all PowerEdge servers

Proactive automated support embedded resolves issues up to 90% faster

Comprehensive Security

Fully signed firmware updates; embedded trust only allows authenticated code to run

Get up to 4x performance improvement with common management tasks with iDRAC9’s new dual-core ARM processor (compared with iDRAC8)

Use the same next-generation of embedded automation to standardize BIOS and secure boot configuration, firmware updates, server asset inventory, health monitoring, and power/reset control across all PowerEdge servers

Proactive automated support embedded resolves issues up to 90% faster

Comprehensive Security

Fully signed firmware updates; embedded trust only allows authenticated code to run